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It depends on the department. Center store name brand items? Yeah, margins are pretty small. Other places in the store, not so much. Margins on the things Wegmans is good at like prepared foods are pretty high. They also have a lot of own brand merch in the center store and fewer national brands by design. There is much higher margin on own brand stuff so if they carry fewer SKUs of national brands and more of own brand and have a decent quality own brand, they will make more money in the end. You wouldn't believe the sheer number of different products out there and some stores go crazy with the number of SKUs they have trying to carry all this different stuff. The ones that make money don't do that. They have the core national brands or regional brands that customers demand and a solid selection of own brand. My wife was category manager for the produce department and then the seafood department for a major grocery store chain so I assure you I've heard about this enough over the last 20 years and I've double checked more than one P&L sheet over the years. Margins on individual items may be small if they are on sale but as a department whole they really don't change. It depends on the store's business model of course, whether it's a "high/low" store that runs a lot of sales and such but then buffers that by having higher margins on other items or if it's an "everyday low price" store that runs less sales across the board. The margins in the stores are about the same but they get there in different ways. Smart stores will merchandise coordinating items near or with items that are on sale so people pick those up as well when they grab the smoking good deal. Of course the margin on the coordinating items is usually pretty high so the store makes up the dollars they are losing by putting the other thing on sale. One thing my wife would do a lot when she was in that role was "meal solutions" she'd have something like broccoli crowns or halibut (not exciting) that she'd merchandise together with other things so that a customer could walk into a store, see this group of things right next to each other that could easily be built into a meal with a recipe card or something and people would pick up all of the items all the time. Sure one of the them would be on sale, the other stuff wouldn't be, it would be stuff she got a good cost of goods on so she was able to have a massive margin on those things and she would crush sales on those things for the week. The next week it would be something different built around what she could get a good cost of goods on, wash/rinse/repeat but to the customer it looks like something new and fresh every week. One thing that used to make her crazy was that consumers tend to judge the overall prices of a store based on the price of bananas. Hence, there is strong incentive to keep bananas cheap which then, in turn, forces the rest of the prices in the produce department to be higher to support the low banana price. Whereas if you charged a dime more for bananas everything else could be cheaper. Customers don't generally see it that way so if you go to a store because they have 49 cent bananas rest assured the other stuff in produce is more expensive. Wegmans bananas are usually 69 cents and basically never go on sale. Take from that what you will. Also, there is ZERO ROI in a stadium naming deal. None. It's setting money on fire so the honchos at the company can get their butts kissed by the team and get things like VIP access to stuff and a fancy lux box or two. That's all it is. Given the restrictions that will be in place this year that will limit all of that corporate ball washing I'd expect the stadium to go unnamed at least for this year.

He's the 25th highest paid RB in the league by AAV (2.9M AAV with 2.4M guaranteed at signing) That said he's 28 and the clock is ticking for him to be able to make money. He won't be a FA again until he's 30 and by then it's too late. I get it from his point of view. It doesn't mean that anybody will acquire him to give him more money and I certainly don't know what his expectations are but when Duke Johnson is making 5.2M a year AAV and got almost 6M guaranteed. and Mike Davis is making 3M with 3M guaranteed there is probably someone willing to pay him something in between those two contracts without thinking about it too hard.

Also a Canisius grad. More years ago than I'd like to admit.

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Good thing they don't have earthquakes there which would make the thing sway unnaturally and shift loads around all over the place. If I'm going to watch the game on TV I'm going to do it at home and save a bunch of time and money.

Good organizations don't often need any extra motivation going into a week. Pittsburgh is a good organization. The Bills, generally over the course of their history, are not. When the Bills have a quarter of the success Pittsburgh has had they can start to talk.

They really really reaaaallllly need to not poke the bear by playing that song this year. They won the game. Take the dub and go about your business.

So detain him and move on. If they were fine leaving him lying on the ground with blood coming out of his ear then they would have been fine leaving him on the ground with his hands and legs zip tied for the trailing officers to pick up. This is also the danger of allowing the President or whoever else to come out and just label people. He states that he's going to declare Antifa to be a terrorist organization (I'm going to ignore that the Klu Klux Klan isn't even labeled as a terrorist organization and I'm also going to ignore that the laws are written specifically for FOREIGN terrorist organizations so as not to trample people's Constitutional rights which is WHY the Klan isn't listed). Then he insinuates that this person is an Antifa operative. Ergo the President of the United States just called this guy a terrorist. That guy. He's what we created anti-terrorism laws for? Read through some of what those laws entail and decide if that's what we want politicians on either side labeling their opposition (American citizens, with rights) and then having the full weight of the federal system behind them to back it up. FTO list and some explanation of what that designation means.

He kinda did, just not in the way they like to think he did.

Then Buffalo doesn't deserve him and I hope he walks if that's the way it's going to be.

Went to the Outer Banks last week. It was empty. Probably going to Vermont in July. Going back to OBX in August.

Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage.

I believe I have heard that. It can out a car at a place at a time. Doesn't necessarily mean a person is driving without other evidence but they use it to piece together timelines or poke holes in alibis.

I know it isn't, but it looks like Heather Graham

We had a plate mounted one on our Chevy Lumina APV in the early 90s because of the windshield angle. But again, not an insurmountable issue and something I think they are well aware of at this point. The stupid transponders worked well enough 25 years ago that we had to take it off and leave it in our mailbox when we wanted to take the car off the Island without my parents knowing about it.

Yeah, I'll have used mine in MD, VA, NC and DE in the last week, all at some degree of speed up to 65mph and there will be no issues. I hear these nightmare stories and I don't know what to do other than shrug because I've never had any of the technical or customer service problems that people report.

Had an ezpass when I lived on the Island pre 1995, very rare issues, easily fixed. Have had an EZ Pass in either PA, NJ or now Maryland (depending on which discount I want to use for a job or which roads I'm driving on most frequently) since I have lived in southeast PA. Very rare issues on Route 1 in Delaware at the ones where you drive through at speed but that was like 10 years ago now and easily solved even at the time. It's my understanding that the tag is tied to your plate and if the tag doesn't register it snaps a picture of the plate and they are able to reconcile the two. I had a tag go bad once and that happened, I got the call ezpass thing when I knew I had money on it and the battery in the tag had died. No fines. Not discounting your problems but I feel like we were some of the first people to get ezpass as Island residents and I've had one ever since, issued by 4 different states and have not had any of those ridiculous types of issues in more than 25 years of using it.

It is a contractual Monopoly granted by a cartel that is neither interested in fairness nor the quality of the product. Can they make more or less money by granting multiple licenses. That's the only question. 2k can make all the football games they want they just can't use the NFLs trademarks e.g. team names nor can they use the players names because the NFLPA has not signed off either. EA pays a premium for exclusivity and has for a long time. They have zero incentive to make the actual game better. If someone wanted to be a smartass I'd love to see a competing game with the teams the NFL has thrown aside or a USFL game. Someone owns the rights to that as well and you could have quite a few HoF players in it if you could get that agreement signed. Retro stuff is all the rage. Have a whole retrofootball game and have the WFL, USFL and XFL. Go for it.

8", 5 1/4", or 3 1/2"? Might wanna back it up on a reel to reel to be safe. Perhaps a series of punch cards? How about the "At Last We Can Dance"

Depends on his demeanor. He's never handled the concept of being a backup well before. He transferred out of Pitt rather than be a backup, there were rumblings about issues between him and Lamar Jackson in Baltimore and he made comments about it not being his job to develop Drew Lock in Denver. If he has embraced his current place in the league and is willing to help Darnold in the QB room that's a good pickup for a team that lost games because of their terrible backup QBs last year. If he's there to vulture a starting spot and sow the seeds of discontent in the locker room when Darnold struggles then it's not a good move to have him there with the kid.

It should, but they've made an onside kick pretty much impossible to recover these days so there should be some other option now. The thing that might need some tweaking is what happens on penalties. On an onside kick it's virtually impossible for the receiving team to get a penalty that would result in the kicking team getting the ball. On a 4th and 15 there are lots and lots of things that can happen to get a free first down or even something like an offside penalty would then make it 4th and 10. Given that the play is almost certain to be a pass, DPI, holding, hitting a defenseless receiver and roughing the QB all come to mind and we've all seen really lousy calls made in all of those areas.

Holla!

Says in the article they moved her to another seat at some point.

I'm sure it violates the terms of service for the hotel so you probably can't. Another way to do it would be to rent out apartments and houses from people then turn around and re-rent them at a higher rate. Again, that's usually against terms of service for things like airbnb so it would take an absolute load of work for a low payout for something that is marginally legal. You'd be better off putting a grand on the Bills at the current odds (28/1) and saving yourself the hassle. -edit- apparently it is legal to resell a hotel reservation and there are companies that do it and then take a cut though one of those companies just went out of business because of the current travel situation. Who knew? It's still a wildly stupid idea to do something like this on the off chance that the Bills win the Super Bowl.

I assumed that's what you were doing but I don't think a publicly traded company with be impacted by who wins the Super Bowl. Publicly traded companies are impacted by sales and revenue not whether or not their employees are happy so unless you think the Bills winning a Super Bowl will cause people to buy more Fords or GMs or bank harder with local banks I don't think it will make much difference. Publicly traded things are also big enough that the impact is spread out over more of the country so if the Bills win sure there will be some people who are excited there will be another fan base in a city with some level of diaspora who are sad. Something like BWW could benefit from the diaspora of Bills fans going to their restaurants for the playoffs but even that would only be or 2 or 3 total days and they already sell an absolute crap load of wings during the NFL playoffs so improving year over year sales is hard to do. If one were really of a mind to do something like this one way could be in getting blocks of hotel rooms downtown for the week after the game in anticipation of a parade and the selling those rooms to out of towners who will flock back for said parade. I don't know that the hotel will be keen on this and it's a massive gamble on your part (not so much of an investment) but there's a way I see to make some scratch. FWIW add sofa manufacturers to the list because I think quite a few will go up in flames that night.